Friday, November 16, 2007

Brotherly kindness

With extreme anticipation, my younger sisters awaited the arrival of a promised package from Judah. He had called them a couple weeks ago and asked them if they wanted anything, to which they unanimously replied, "My Little Pet Shops!" For those of you who are not up to date on the latest in little girls' toys, My Little Pet Shops are plastic bobble-head animals. Caroline, Evangeline, and Julianna were so excited when Judah told them over the phone he'd bought around 12 of them! (Jared told me they felt a little odd as they searched through Wal-Mart's toy section for the animals my sisters wanted. Judah and Jared spent quite some time hunting for the correct animals...they couldn't find everything they needed so Judah also took a couple trips to Limited Too. Judah felt a little awkward shopping alone in that particular store.)
Judah also decided to ship us a bunch of full sized candy bars along with some t-shirts he bought at the pro-wakeboard tour in Cancun, Mexico. Needless to say, we were all thrilled when the package arrived.

Packages are fairly consistent as far as delivery time so on the day she knew the package would come, Julianna faithfully did her school in front of the window so she would know exactly when the mailman arrived.

Waiting for the mailman to come up on the elevator


"The suspense is killing me!"

Getting ready to rip it open


Treasure


Oohing and aahing over each new animal

Divvying up their treasure (they've practically got a zoo now)

The sight of these candy bars inspired Gabriel to begin singing, "America the Beautiful." Notice - he had already started eating!